Career
After reading history at Cambridge University, Short worked from 1969 to 1984 on major current affairs programmes for the Independent Television companies Thames Television, Granada and London Weekend Television (on the Lebanon) and for Channel 4"s Dispatches series (on the international arms trade). In 1998 he presented Charlie Richardson and the British Mafia for Longshot Productions and Channel 4. Short has also completed a television series based on his 1989 book Inside the Brotherhood (Further Secrets of the Freemasons), for the Independent Television network with Twenty Twenty Television and Granada.
Short wrote, produced and narrated the prize winning Independent Television documentary series on the Mafia in America, Crime Incorporated.
To accompany the series he also wrote Crime Incorporated.: A History of Organized Crime in America. In addition to feature articles for The Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, Punch and Time Out, he co-authored (in 1977) The Fall of Scotland Yard about police corruption in London.
